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Stalled negotiations at UG prompt unions to threaten industrial action

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Stalled negotiations at UG prompt unions to threaten industrial action

Even as they threaten to ‘shutdown’ the University of Guyana if Vice Chancellor (VC), Professor Opadeyi, fails to rethink his plans to downsize programmes at the institution, the university...

Father son murder trial continues in Berbice High Court

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Father son murder trial continues in Berbice High Court

The murder trial of the father and son who are on trial for the murder of a Corentyne farmer at Hogstye, Corentyne back in 2011 is continuing in the Berbice High Court. On trial are Khrishna called...

A PRIVATE BRIDGE BUILT MAINLY WITH PUBLIC FUNDS

May 27, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A PRIVATE BRIDGE BUILT MAINLY WITH PUBLIC FUNDS

The opposition continues to waste its time in calling for a reduction of the tariffs to cross the Berbice River Bridge. It has failed to grasp an important legal truism: there is nothing that the...

Guyana’s education is at its best – Manickchand

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s education is at its best – Manickchand

“Guyana’s education system is the best it has ever been” declared Education Minister Priya Manickchand with pride, noting that equitable access to education, improved results, an increased...

IDB gives US$500,000 to coconut farmers

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on IDB gives US$500,000 to coconut farmers

Recently, the Inter Development Bank (IDB) donated US$500,000 to a registered group of cash crop farmers within the Marlborough, Lower Pomeroon area. The money is to help them to find markets for...

Donald Ramotar: The Nigam moment versus the historic moment

May 27, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Donald Ramotar: The Nigam moment versus the historic moment

Donald Ramotar is inching his way to three years of his Presidency. In all the countries in the world, editors, analysts, commentators, scholars would take a look at the achievements or barren record...

NAPS looks to private sector to help sustain HIV/AIDS gains

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NAPS looks to private sector to help sustain HIV/AIDS gains

With talks, in the past few years, about reduced funding, transitioning of donor-funded resources and therefore dwindling support to Government to fight HIV/AIDS, there is an ever increasing need to...

Guyanese seriously injured as vehicle turn turtle in Suriname

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese seriously injured as vehicle turn turtle in Suriname

Six Guyanese are reportedly in serious condition following a vehicular accident yesterday in neighbouring Suriname. According to the De Ware Tijd online news, the Toyota Hilux with Guyanese number...

Kerosene stove falls on baby

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kerosene stove falls on baby

A 16-month-old baby girl is nursing first degree burns to her right side face and hand at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). This was after a kerosene stove fell on her last Friday....

CDB hosts three-day stakeholder forum

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CDB hosts three-day stakeholder forum

Representatives from almost every borrowing member country of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will be participating in a stakeholders’ forum to come up with better working strategies, over the...

As diplomacy becomes more complex…Non-interference within a country’s boundaries should be paramount — says Foreign Minister

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on As diplomacy becomes more complex…Non-interference within a country’s boundaries should be paramount — says Foreign Minister

Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has outlined that diplomacy today has become far more complex and rapid in the digital era and adverted to the principles which continue to guide...

St. Ignatius Secondary, Mackenzie High among 21 schools now offering Portuguese

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on St. Ignatius Secondary, Mackenzie High among 21 schools now offering Portuguese

The language barrier between Guyana and its largest South American neighbour, Brazil, will soon be reduced as the Ministry of Education is intensifying efforts to have Portuguese taught in schools...

Ed Ahmad’s GuySuCo land deal looks like giveaway

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ed Ahmad’s GuySuCo land deal looks like giveaway

‘We are deeply concerned about many of the financial transactions of the Jagdeo regime’- Granger “We are deeply concerned about many of the financial transactions embarked on by the Jagdeo...

A game of deception

May 27, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A game of deception

When a government refuses to take its population into its confidence it deserves to be rejected by those people. Over the past few years, Guyana, through Head of the National Industrial and...

Doctors complete ER training

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Doctors complete ER training

Guyana’s capability to deal with and treat patients who require emergency medical attention at its major hospitals and health care facilities is expected to be boosted and improved. Emergency Room...

TUTORIAL HIGH SCHOOL IS 75 YEARS OLD

May 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on TUTORIAL HIGH SCHOOL IS 75 YEARS OLD

THE CASTELLO COMMEMORATIVE FUND The ethos of the Castello brothers, Austin, Cosmo and Joseph, was an education at any cost. Hundreds of students from the pre-1976 era had the privilege of attaining...

APNU, STOP PUSSYFOOTING.

May 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU, STOP PUSSYFOOTING.

Dear Editor, The main opposition party APNU should immediately shut up and vote with the People’s Progressive Party to facilitate passage of the Anti Money Laundering Bill. Leave the Alliance for...

Long overdue, but better late than never

May 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Long overdue, but better late than never

DEAR EDITOR, Permit me to be added as yet another Guyanese sending laudatory remarks and encomiums on Brigadier Granger for grasping the bull by the horns, or better still acting as the psychiatrist,...

The ‘Sultan Mohamed’ group is becoming less and less viable to fool this generation

May 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ‘Sultan Mohamed’ group is becoming less and less viable to fool this generation

DEAR EDITOR, Back in 2012, I addressed a letter to the pseudonym ‘Sultan Mohamed’ where I demonstrated that the PPP is constructed as a Cult and not as a Political Party capable of evolution....

Sham ‘solidarity’ benefits no one; act locally, Mr. Rohee!

May 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sham ‘solidarity’ benefits no one; act locally, Mr. Rohee!

DEAR EDITOR, Recently, I read a news article in which the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee, when asked his opinion about the case of Alex Griffith – the 15-year-old boy who was taken...

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) – A Disappointing Development Partner

May 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) – A Disappointing Development Partner

DEAR EDITOR, At a recent meeting at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Headquarters in Barbados with its President, Guyana’s Finance Minister and Chairman of CDB Board of Governors, Dr. Ashni...

Occupational health and safety is of greatest importance

May 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Occupational health and safety is of greatest importance

DEAR EDITOR, I write you on a matter that I consider to be of supreme importance to the future development of the nation. We often postulate that people are our greatest asset and at other times we...

Controversy continues to embroil Marriott…Private investors have no experience in Hotel Industry

May 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Controversy continues to embroil Marriott…Private investors have no experience in Hotel Industry

– their businesses include lottery, mining The Chinese private investors for the Marriott Hotel do not come with the background in the hotel industry that Winston Brassington had demanded....

Miss World Guyana Pageant… Who will be tonight’s Queen?

May 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Miss World Guyana Pageant… Who will be tonight’s Queen?

By: Kiana Wilburg Tonight at the National Cultural Centre, eight stunning damsels will showcase their beauty, charm and intellect as they engage in a “civilized battle” to win the title of...

Female sweet talks mom, vanishes with new born baby

May 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Female sweet talks mom, vanishes with new born baby

Police in ‘B’ Division are hunting for a Surinamese woman who allegedly abducted a 10-day-old baby boy from his mother last Saturday at the Port Mourant Market in Corentyne, Berbice. The baby,...

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Fastest growing economy and an empty stadium

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- It’s a classic Guyanese tale, really. You live in the fastest growing economy in the... more